The topic seems to fascinate most people. But at the same time we tend to avoid talking about it. When a student hangs himself in his college apartment, it is not on the front page of the school newspaper. The University tries to hide it. In fact, if that individual were a loner, with not many friends, no student would ever find out. And in fact if the parents do not make a big deal about it, such as the Story of Elizabeth Shin, it will be hidden at all costs: "It wasn't a news story in Westmoreland County. The community newspaper treated it delicately with a routine $5-a-line obituary; only Nathan's age would have caught a reader's attention. But two weeks after he died, his mother decided to go public with her son's story, testifying before a House committee in Harrisburg" (Post Gazette 2000). The suicide is a secret, a shame; no one wants to read on the front page of the newspaper that a person could function in life so severely that they killed themselves. .
Kay Redfield Jamison, a professor of psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, is an expert on mental illness. Her book, Night Falls Fast, delves into the mind of the suicidal. Jamison writes, "In 1995, more teenagers and young adults died from suicide than died from cancer, heart disease, AIDS, pneumonia, influenza, birth defects, and stroke combined." A survey from the same year found that one in ten college students had seriously considered suicide in the previous year, most having drawn up a plan. Only accidents kill more of them; yet most families don't look at mental-health services at all when picking a college. Arming a teenager to withstand stress, setbacks, and heartache is not enough. Jamison insists that it is mental illness that causes most suicides: depression, manic-depression, and schizophrenia, all of which often find their victims in young adulthood. Healthy people, for the most part, can handle the occasional disappointments of life; mental illness can make it difficult to cope with the sunrise.
After reading Night Falls Fast, by Kay Redfield Jamison, I realize that suicide is a reality for many people today. What has surprised me the most is that suicide is most serious with college and high school students. If fact, it is the third leading cause of death in young people and has tripled ...
In William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, Oberon and his wife, Titania, are king and queen of all the fairies who inhabit the earth. ... When Titania awakens from her sleep she sees Bottom with an ass head and instantly falls in love with him. ... When Lysander wakes up and sees Helena he forgets Hermia and falls in love with Helena. ... Not only does he want everything made right, but also he wants it done fast so everything will be okay again. ...
They agreed, cranky , and tired they fell fast to sleep once again. ... We passed the first sign for Niagra Falls. ... After an entire night of driving,we were finally rewarded. ... The air was full of a thick mist from the falls. ... I hoped our entrance into the country would be fast and easy. ...
Hari Raya Aidilfitri, also known as Hari Raya Puasa, is the most meaningful and significant celebration for Muslims to mark the end of Ramadhan or the fasting month. The day is most significant as it includes two of the five tenets of Islam's: to fast during the month of Ramadhan and to pay zakat fitrah, or alms tax.Muslims celebrate the first of Syawal, which is the 10th month of the Muslim calendar, with joyous enthusiasm. ... The lighting of oil lamps reflects the festive mood.The lamps are lighted from the 20th day of Ramadhan, the night when the Koran was sent down, right through the...
Fairies in folkloristic tradition and within A Midsummer Night's Dream exist in a wide variety. In the course of this paper I hope to demonstrate the variety of fairies and how they appear in A Midsummer Night's Dream. The fairies in A Midsummer Night's Dream at first appear to be homogenous, and critics often see them this way. ... For this reason I will discuss certain magical characters of A Midsummer Night's Dream in separate chapters. ... The first fairy to appear on stage in A Midsummer Night's Dream describes her task to the audience: "To dew her orbs upon th...
He asks "Yet if hope has flown away/In a night, or in a day,/In a vision, or in none,/Is it therefore the less gone?... Poe also uses repetition "In a night, or in a day, In a vision, or in none". ... He tries to grasp the sand in his hands but it slowly falls out of them. ... Grasping the sand with your hands even tighter makes the sand leave even faster so Poe is trying to say that by being very controlling and conscientious about your life, you are missing out and letting go of things that you don't need to. ... Each grain that falls out of the narrator's hands sho...
As the Islamic months are based on the positioning of the moon, Ramadan falls eleven days earlier each year. ... This special prayer is called the "Taraweeh" prayer, meaning the "Night prayer". ... Some Muslims spend the whole night in prayer. ... One may eat and drink at any time during the night until you can plainly distinguish a white thread from a black thread by the daylight: then keep the fast until night. ... On the evening of the 27th day of the month Muslims celebrate Layal-ul-Qadr (the night of power), thi...
At home she felt secured by her family and going out at night gave her a chance to be rebellious. ... He comes to Connie's house and draws a lot of attention towards Connie, "I took a special interest in you, such a pretty girl, and found out all about like I know your parents and sister are gone somewheres and I know where and how long they"re gong to be gone, and I know who you were with last night, and your best friend's name is Betty. ... He made her decide between the two, to stay a little girl or to grow up fast and this terrified her. ... Many adolescents want to grow up w...
Ethan Frome It is a cold winter night. ... After only living with them a short period of time, Ethan falls in love with her. ... (Ethan's heart begins to pound faster and faster) What if she doesn't feel the same about me? ... Do I want to wake up to Mattie's shining face in the morning, or go to bed every night next to Zeena's teeth in a glass? ...
